Welcome to EduArt 4 Kids
Art means lots of different things to different people.
To some it means the typical arts and crafts projects that are all over the schools and the internet.
To others it means art museums and big fancy paintings.
To others it means awful childhood experiences with failure. And that's a pity because art should be a joy.
Art should be a way for children to learn to think, develop great self esteem and have their creativity blossom.
There are many, many sites out there about crafts and art . Some are great sites while others are simply giving over the copycat instructions needed to have children copy exactly what is instructed. Sort of what you find all over Pinterest.
I am on a mission. On a mission to guide you on a journey of giving children art that helps their confidence grow, raise their self esteem, make them better learners, self regulate and totally enjoy the art experience.
The way I do this now is by giving professional development workshops to early childhood and kindergarten teachers.(and this blog)
I have an online program that can be used by anyone anywhere in the world and then I do in person workshops. (mostly in the Tri state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut ) but will fly anywhere anyone wants to bring me out to . (ok not anywhere )
In all my years I’ve done many things with art and kids.
I even spent 11 years as an elementary school art teacher.
By doing that I learned that you don’t need an art background to teach kids art. You can be an “art enabler” which is what I was even though I was called an art teacher.
As an art teacher my last 7 years of teaching I had discovered the method of TAB. (teaching for artistic behavior) which you can read more about in this category on my blog.
It’s very similar to what I teach teachers how to do in their early childhood classrooms, with lots of choice.
Meet the team: That's me....
My name is Faigie Kobre . (hard g)
I've been married a really long time thank Gd (same guy) have 6 children and a bunch of grandchildren. I live in NY (not far from Kennedy airport) and live in an Observant Jewish community. (more about that at Mama Smiles blog)from a really long time ago.
I have a Masters in Early Childhood Education from the Bank Street College of Education, spent years as an early childhood teacher and then a preschool director. I also spent 11 years as an art teacher.
Totally unrelated but I did spend 25 years as a high end portrait photographer as well. (Don't try guessing how old I am)
Below is a collage of some of my past portrait work.
If you are interested in understanding and maybe switching to more creative art then you might want to start by getting my blueprint Unlock the Power of Art and Crafts which will get you started. That will put you on my email list where I send out an email every week with various musings about this topic
These days as far as social media goes I’m on LinkedIn and you can connect with me there.
I do have accounts on Instagram, Facebook and even though I am not active there. My account on Pinterest is full of creative art though not your typical Pinterest craft images.(and I haven't done much with it in a while)
I hope you'll join me on this journey of learning all kinds of great art things that you can do with your own kids (or students) and hopefully they will develop the confidence in art and themselves so important to be a successful learner in school (or at home) today.
If you would like to reach me you can do so on my contact me page, or you can email me at faigie@eduart4kids.com
Thanks for visiting
Faigie
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